Word: flagrante
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...caught. Once in a while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...
...proctors cannot prevent some amount of cheating, this does not mean that they are unnecessary. They are essential both to stop any flagrant abuses and to maintain good order. In a school as large and diverse as Harvard, an honor code could not replace the need for some degree of outside control. Nevertheless, proctors should show more respect for the student as a mature individual, who is not intent on "beating the system," but simply wants a more relaxed and less regimented examination room...
Feeling not at all sure that it could count on the West, Israel battened down its hatches for trouble. It wanted peace but feared to sound weak, and stuck to its martial air in the week when the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned it for the fourth "flagrant violation" of the Palestine armistice in three years...
...only help him but pay him." As early as 1852 the House of Representatives chased lobbyists from its floor, and in 1875 Congress pushed through a rule requiring their registration. But at the next session the lobbyists lobbied the rule out of existence, and lobbying became not only more flagrant but more fragrant. During Woodrow Wilson's Administration, Senate investigators discovered that one of their own teen-age pages was being paid to tip off the National Association of Manufacturers' lobbyist about confidential cloakroom talks...
...from the members of the House Appropriations Committee. Only last week, while his head was swimming with the billions of the new budget, old John Taber, ranking Republican on the committee, confronted him with a packet of individually wrapped cotter pins and washers and demanded an explanation for such flagrant waste...